Phonetic Families & Components

Sound Roots & Semantic Radicals Explorer

Decode Chinese characters by their shared sound roots and see how semantic radicals split their meanings across tones.

Popular Roots:

列

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)HSK 4

列 (liè)

to arrange, line up, column, row

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Family Characters

HSK Words

Tone Fan-out (列)

How this root's pronunciation drifts across the Mandarin tone spectrum:

2 Active Tones

Tone 1liē

Tone 4liè

Family Characters (8)

Root: 列

列

liè

HSK 4

Phonetic Root (声旁 / Sound Core)

to arrange, line up, column, row

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例

lì

HSK 2

亻(person)

example

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烈

liè

HSK 3

灬(fire)

fierce

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裂

liè

HSK 6

衣(clothes)

to split

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咧

liē

HSK 7

口(mouth)

used in 咧咧[lie1 lie1]; used in 大大咧咧[da4 da4 lie1 lie1]

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冽

liè

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冫(ice)

cold and raw

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洌

liè

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氵(water)

pure; to cleanse

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趔

liè

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走(run)

used in 趔趄[lie4 qie5]

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